Extracting verb valency frames with NooJ Krešimir Šojat, Kristina Vučković*, Marko Tadić ksojat@ffzg.hr, kvuckovi@ffzg.hr, marko.tadic@ffzg.hr Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb Department of Linguistics *Department of Information Sciences Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

The Plan Our agenda? Full description of consumation verb valency frames (FrameNet by Fillmore, Atkins, Ruppenhofer et al, etc.) given core arguments searching for peripheral elements time, place, manner, company (PP+I), instrument (NP+I), cause… How? using core verb valency frames description checking the verb’s environment -4 and +4 sets of word phrases Why? to prepare data for Croatian WordNet to improve grammars for syntactic verb environment recognition NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Overview Croatian consumation verb valency main characteristics Lexicon data description Syntactic grammar detecting verb’s environment Checking the data exctracting frames NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Consumation verb valency lexicon adding semantic information to lexicon semantic field = cons consumer cons1 (Nominative) consumed cons2 (Genitive) cons4 (Accusative) cons7 (Instrumental) core arguments = cons1 | cons12 | cons14 | cons17 jesti,V+FLX=JESTI+Aspect=inf+Prelaz=pov +cons+cons1+cons14 Ja jedem. (I am eating.) Jedem. (I am eating.) Ona se najela gljiva. (She has stuffed herself with mushrooms). Ja jedem ribu. (I’m eating fish.) Oni se hrane kukuruzom. (They are feeding on corn.) NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Grammars NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Grammars NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Results Kao i većina drugih, ta obitelj nikad ne jede u Branimirovoj već hranu nosi kući. Like many others, that family never eats in Branimirova street but carries their food home. -4 i -3 većina drugih -2 ta obitelj -1 nikad ne jede 1 u Branimirovoj 2 već 3 hranu 4 nosi <C> <NP+Nom> <R> <VP+cons1> <PP+L> <NP+Acc> <VP> NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Results 2 : problems A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri. She feeds herself in such a manner due to her powerty that she must not disclose to her daughter. B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove. Before the beginning of the meeting they ate croassans and fruit and drank fruit juices. -4 -3 ona -2 se -1 tako hrani 1 poradi svoga siromaštva 2 što 3 ga 4 ne smije otkriti <NP+Nom> <VP> <R> <VP+cons1> <PP+G> <PRO> <NP+Acc> -4 -3 -2 -1 prije početka susreta jeli su 1 kroasane i voće 2 i 3 pili 4 voćne sokove <PP+G> <VP+cons14> <NP+Acc> <C> <VP> NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Possible solutions 1 A: => A: <PP+G> - ADV+cause <VP+cons1><PP+G><PRO+question><WF> => <VP+cons1> <ADV+cause <PP+G <Att> > > A: <PP+G> - ADV+cause B: <PP+G> - ADV+time (S+vr) <PP+G><VP+cons14>… <ADV+time <PP+G> > <VP+cons14> NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Possible solutions 2 <ADV+cause> A: Ona se tako hrani poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri. B: Prije početka susreta jeli su kroasane i voće i pili voćne sokove. ona <NP+ CONSUMER> -4 -3 ona -2 se -1 tako hrani 1 poradi svoga siromaštva 2 što 3 ga 4 ne smije otkriti <NP+Nom> <VP> <R> <VP+cons1> <PP+G> <PRO> <NP+Acc> tako <ADV +manner> poradi svoga siromaštva što ga ne smije otkriti kćeri. <ADV+cause> -4 -3 -2 -1 prije početka susreta jeli su 1 kroasane i voće 2 i 3 pili 4 voćne sokove <PP+G> <VP+cons14> <NP+Acc> <C> <VP> prije početka susreta <ADV+time> kroasane i voće <NP+CONSUMED> NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09

Future work building local grammars for recognizing syntactic verb valency frames morphosyntactic description of phrases semantic verb valency frames core + peripheral frame elements check if described frames can be copied into other semantic fields NooJ2009 Tozeur 2009-06-09